What Do You Think About This Family Guy Joke?

This past Sunday Family Guy (created by Seth MacFarlane), the animated comedy from Fox's "Animation Domination" prime-time line-up, included a scene involving Peter and Brian Griffin (Brian is the family dog and an atheist) at a court ordered AA meeting. Here is a bit of dialogue followed by the actual joke in which they cut to a scene in Jerusalem (I think) somewhere around the time of Jesus' birth...

AA Leader, “Peter it sounds like alcohol is a very destructive force in your life. You need to relinquish your dependence and give your life over to a higher power.”

Brian: pfft..

AA Leader: “Do you have a different view, Brian?”

Brian: “Oh I don’t know. Are we allowed to have a different view?”

AA Leader: “AA is the only way out for these people. Millions have been saved by AA.”

Brian: “Hey, people did just fine for thousands of years before AA. Just like they got along fine for thousands of years without religion.”

(Cut to a scene with two men dressed in biblical-looking garb standing outside.)

Man 1: “I like you and have no reason not to.”

Man 2: “I like you and have no reason not to.”

Man 3: (enters, excitedly) “Hey, did you hear about that magic baby that was born in Bethlehem?”

(All three men start screaming, donning swords and stabbing each other to death.)

I thought that it was both laugh-out-loud funny and thought provoking. Seeing as though I've had many great discussions, debates and arguments on Newsvine regarding religion and atheism I figured that a lot of you would get a kick out of this.